It’s a deeply pleasant and appealing game – and it has the best battle with Knuckles in Sonic history. I know, it sounds insane, but it’s true, and it makes Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit feel like spending time with a close friend. As mentioned, the levels have all been expanded, but the overall feel of the game, of the individual spaces, manages to capture some kind of intimacy. One thing it carries forward from the Game Gear original is a sense of smallness, preserving the pleasantly compact feel of Sega’s incomparable handheld.
It’s a strong testament to the relentless passion of the community. There’s a robust multiplayer mode too, with a brace of minigames taking the whole package above and beyond anything I would expect from a fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog game given away for free.
The levels are neither too long, nor too short, and you’ll be eager to jump back in when you inevitably clear it in one beautiful sitting.īeating it that quickly is not a bad thing post-game you’re able to replay stages with additional characters, who I won’t spoil, but are quite obvious if you’re familiar with Triple Trouble’s cast. Masterful compositions of the original Game Gear music soundtrack is across the whole experience, and it is a superb one. Nearly everything in this demo, from art to sound to the gameplay engine, was made from scratch.It’s laced with joyous set pieces that expand on and pay homage to the source material, delivering thrills while staying rigidly within the confines of what the Mega Drive could actually do. The trailer’s blurb reads: “Sonic Utopia is an experiment that not only tries to expand on Sonic gameplay in an intuitive way in 3D, but also aims to capture the best of Sonic’s style and tie it together in a cohesive experience.
We’re obviously holding out hope that next year’s Project Sonic will do the business, 100 per cent fan-made, nothing-to-do-with-Sega Sonic Utopia looks like the modern-day Sonic game we’ve all fantasised about.Ĭreated entirely from the ground up by The Great Lange and a programmer named Murasaki, Sonic Utopia looks like it takes that sense of frantic speed from the original games and adapts it admirably for a 3D game world. Nothing anyway that can hold a candle to some of the plumber’s genre-defining adventures. When the ring-hogging hedgehog burst emphatically onto the scene in the early 90s, he looked (literally) unstoppable.īut we don’t need to tell you that, unlike Mario, Sonic’s shift into the third dimension has been troubled at best, and to this day there still hasn’t been a truly excellent 3D Sonic game. Sega’s speedy mascot is one of video gaming’s enduring icons, but sometimes it’s difficult to see why.
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